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A professor at Gettysburg College last week said she had heard that the Justice Scalia had never hired a single female law clerk. On several radio shows, I’ve been asked about Scalia and Opus Dei. Then there’s the assertion I hear constantly that Justices Scalia and Clarence Thomas vote in lockstep.

On many controversies (duck-hunting with Dick Cheney, for example), Justice Scalia is guilty as charged. But not on those above:

1. Justice Scalia has, in fact, hired several women clerks over the years, some of whom have gone on to prominent positions in academia, such as Joan Larsen at the University of Michigan. It is true, however, that clerks for a majority of the justices, including Scalia, have been overwhelmingly male (and white) through the years.

I received enough reaction from the post on that snowy February 10 regarding whether journalists should call law clerks for information that I have a sequel. (See “But Would the Supreme Court Law Clerk Have Taken My Call?”)

I could write about great snowstorms I have known, from Chicago in 1967 to Washington, D.C., in 1996 (a journalistic favorite because Chief Justice Rehnquist insisted on starting oral arguments right at 10 a.m. before all justices had made it in) and then declare how these storms don’t hold a candle to what’s happening now in the nation’s capital. (A stunning 54.9 inches for the winter!) But everyone has a blizzard tale this week, so on to something from the law school circuit: